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, demonstrates a kind of oppression that requires both outward and inward
obedience from Party members. It isn't enough simply to do what you are told in Oceania; your
thoughts also must be in alignment with the will of the state. To deviate at all from orthodox
thinking is to commit a thoughtcrime. Any thoughtcrime leaves an individual open to arrest by
the Thought Police.
For example, there are no laws at all in Oceania, and
thus no laws forbiddingfrom owning and writing in a journal, but he knows this is thoughtcrime
that at minimum would earn him twenty-five years of hard labor, or, more likely, the death
penalty.
Aslater explains to Winston, the goal of the state is to remake the
human being into a new form. This new human, which will hardly be more than an animal, will only
be able to have to the simplest thoughts because the...
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